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Went quite nicely, cranked and watched the oil pressure come up ... kept cranking to get fuel up to the carb and after several seconds more she fired up and was running very smooth and nice.

I'll add, running nice for sitting in the garage, I'm sure out on the road will be a different story.

I siphoned as much of the old gas out as I could yesterday and put in ten gallons of fresh fuel in preparation for the initial start up today.

I started taking this poor Camaro down for paint back in the fall of 2007 and soon got sidetracked on my home remodel. Yes, that other thread. ;)

This old girl is going to go through a lot of transformation. I intend to take the car back much closer to factory stock configuration in most functional regards.

I also intend to give her a color change. I tire of seeing so many red 1st generation Camaros plus the color on this car is not a factory red. I'm not real big on sticking to factory colors on my cars, but in this case I want to do so.

This car has a *State of Nevada* issued VIN and the firewall VIN tag is missing, so I have no idea what the factory color of this particular Camaro was. I want to go with something a little more subtle, so I am testing out a pint of a factory 67 color called Capri Cream.

I think It's going to be fine, but I didn't want to buy enough to paint the entire car until I could see it on some complete pieces out in the sun.

Anyway, that's the excitement at my place today and moving on to the future for a while.

Love it. 67-69 Camaro's are right up there with my all time favorites. A 68 SS could have/should have been my first car (around 1975). I stupidly settled for a 72 Vega GT. Yes, you heard that correctly. :-(

That looks like it. I have not seen a lot of Capri Cream out there myself.

My long gone SS350 was Butternut Yellow which is a rather dull faded looking yellow. Some might refer to it using terms like "puke yellow" or something of the sort. ;)

Back then (mid 70s) I had it painted a more vibrant yellow with gold pearl on top. Not something I'd want to do today, but it was cool for my taste at the time.

Currently working to get the car drivable again. One of the things I had to do on it was weld in a new tail panel, so the entire rear of the car was apart including the rear glass out. At the same time I sand blasted out the trunk floor and wheel wells so I could refinish the trunk interior. With the tail panel out access to the trunk was about as good as it gets. :)

(This message was last edited by BlondeStrat at 04:22 PM, Mar 28th, 2017)

Excellent! I should show this to my neighbor, owner of a 1968 Camaro with original 350 engine. I learned only about 10 years ago that the 350 was available in Camaros as early as 1967. We checked the engine block serial number to verify its 350-ality.

"I learned only about 10 years ago that the 350 was available in Camaros as early as 1967."

Back when I had my 67 SS350 (73 to 78) I would go to parts stores for things and answer their questions to identify the car. They would then promptly inform me that there was no 350 engine in 1967. I got very use to explaining the deal to them ... hopefully they appreciated the education.

I still get it (350 engine confusion) today from guys seeing the car in the driveway or garage and stopping by to talk and almost always ask me if I will sell it.

As a child of the 80's, I originally became obsessed with the '69 Camaro SS via the movie Better Off Dead. I loved those cars until a few years later when my attention turned to GTO's. I still have a soft spot for the Camaros though.

I didn't learn to drive a manual transmission until well after I'd sold my '68 GTO. Once I figured out how to drive a stick I figured if I ever do own a vintage muscle car again it would definitely be a manual transmission. My '68 had actually been born a manual trans. car but a previous owner had changed out the drivetrain.

"Here in Ohio I had to wait for the weather to break to start working on my cutlass."

Budg, in Vegas we have two seasons like that. Winter is too cold to do some things, especially painting (I don't have a heated garage).

Then Summer, where it's too hot to enjoy being outside. I do have a swamp cooler for the garage, so that helps out a ton in the intense heat. The swamp cooler is good for about a 20 degree reduction in temp ... so on a 105 degree day I can still have the garage at about 85. Without the cooler my west facing garage might be upwards of 120 to 130. :(

Yeah that's pretty toasty blondestrat. I have been toying with the idea of a garage heater, but usually winter means indoor house projects. Those swamp coolers take the edge off pretty much but 85 is much better than 130.

My cutlass doesn't have ac so we'll see how long my wife hangs with me for car shows.

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